Grade 11-12: Vocabulary Lesson for Tuesday, Week 14

Word List 14

1. flagrant: conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible
2. grueling: physically or mentally demanding to the point of exhaustion
3. inculcate: to impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill; to teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate
4. impasse: a road or passage having no exit; a cul-de-sac; a situation that is so difficult that no progress can be made; a deadlock or a stalemate
5. inordinate: exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate; not regulated; disorderly
6. insipid: lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull
7. integral: essential or necessary for completeness; constituent; possessing everything essential; entire

Tuesday Activities

1. Create your own stacks of flashcards using this site. Register for free, then create your note cards. Type in your vocabulary words and then the definition.
2. Mind Games - Create a mind map with words that mean the opposite or antonyms. Use the thesaurus built into your word program to find more words that are antonyms. Or you can go to this this on-line thesaurus. Click on the button in front of Thesaurus at the top of the page, then type your word into the white area.
3. Listen to your sentences you created yesterday. Click on this link to go to the site. Type in a sentence using each word and listen to the avatar read it back to you. We suggest that you create a free user account and save these files to playback at a later time.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

The flagrant foul caused the basketball player to be ejected from an important game.
"Your flagrant disregard for the rules has finally caught up with you," the grim sergeant told me.

The Iditarod is such a grueling race that all who finish it consider themselves winners.
The grueling pace of the competition soon eliminated those who had not developed enough stamina.

My parents did their best to inculcate a set of high moral values in me.
When my son was born my father sat me down and said, "Your job is to inculcate in him the same values we imparted to you.^

After a week of deliberation the jury had to inform the trial judge that they had met an impasse.
Halfway up the mountain my heart sank as we stared up at the impasse which blocked out way to the summit.

After a summer's drudgery I resigned due to the inordinate demands of my supervisor.
"My Dear, you are inordinately beautiful," the scoundrel told the young woman he was trying to woo.

I find most local newscasts to be terribly insipid.
I was hungry, but the meal before me was too insipid to interest me.

The failure of an integral component of an airplane can be a horrible disaster.
The chairman assured us that each one of us was an integral part of the decision process.

 
 

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